Let's say UMass is in? Is it possible Army or Navy could join? Navy no, Army maybe. Army played 3 MAC teams this past year, Easterm Michigan, Kent State and Temple. How about a MAC that looks something like this.

With South Alabama, Texas State, and UTSA already poised to move up and expected to be followed by Lamar, Villanova, and Massachusetts, FBS would be up to 126 teams. That could give us 7 conferences of 18 teams:

Pac-12 adds Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Baylor, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State to become the Pac-18

Since my last dream conference, Texas signed their big TV deal so I decided to do a new dream conference for FUN. So here goes. Enjoy.

The ACC merges with the Big East. The Big East gets renamed the ACC Northern Division. The ACC now owns the entire east coast. Boston College and Virginia Tech are reunited with Syracuse, Rutgers, Pitt and West Virginia. Football is upgraded but not nearly enough but wow, the basketball.

The BIG TEN finally gets Notre Dame. They do not expand any farther because they do not need to after landing the Irish. Sure 13 is an odd number but hell they played with 11 teams for years and did just fine. Notre Dame gets to play rivals Michigan, Michigan State, Purdue and regains rival Penn State.

The SEC takes Texas A&M and TCU establishing a huge presence in talent rich Texas.Texas A&M finally reaches their potential as Texas recruits clamor to play in the best football conference in the land. With SEC teams playing in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and in south Texas every year, the rich just keeps getting richer. The SEC also takes West Virginia after Virginia Tech’s invite gets squashed by Virginia politics and because this is my dream conference, the SEC invites Missouri bringing them the St. Louis and Kansas City markets. Now if I wasn’t dreaming enough, Alabama and Auburn go to different divisions with the guarantee they still play each other every year.

With all this crazy expansion going on, the PAC 12 goes after the BIG XII again. The Longhorns turn down the PAC’s offer once again after ESPN gives them an extra 20 million to broadcast all Longhorn home football games. Oklahoma and Oklahoma State decide it is in their best interest to leave the Horns and joins the PAC. The Tech problem gets resolved when the PAC decides it wants access to Texas and the Kansas Jayhawks breath a sigh of relief as the get the 4rth bid. The PAC 12 changes their name to the Pacific West Conference. The West division reunites several members of the old Big 8 conference. The Pacific Division is the old Pac 8.

Texas keeps the Big XII together by adding 5 additional Texas teams. Baylor also stays.The Big XII changes it’s name to the Don’t Mess With Texas Conference. The Don’t Mess with Texas Conference then changes it’s name to the Southwest Conference after a desperate Louisiana Tech decides anyting is better than the WAC and concedes their share of TV revenue to the University of Texas. Texas plays 7 conference games and non- conference games with Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and a natiohnal opponent. The Red River rivalry continues to be played in Dallas. The Longhorns play no less than 10 games a year in the Lone Star state.

The new SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE-Texas, Baylor, Houston, North Texas, Rice,SMU, UTEP and Louisiana Tech

The Mountain West is ecstatic to grab the Big XII leftovers. They also grab Big East leftovers Louisville and Cincinnati along with the Memphis of C-USA. BYU begs to come back. Here's the new Mountain West.

The MAC passes the WAC on the conference pecking order. I would love to see Army and Navy join the MAC but decide to leave them independents. The MAC does get 3 FCS upgrades. The new MAC looks like this.

Now, the mess known as the WAC. The new WAC operates as two separate 8 team leagues under the direction of one conference commissioner. The Western and Eastern divisions do not play each other to save money with the exception of the championship game.

2011: Villanova accepts the Big East's offer and football team moves up beginning in 2013 season. The Big East decides 10 football schools is good for now, does not invite Central Florida.Lamar joins former Southland Conference foes Texas State and UTSA and accepts WAC invite, giving the WAC 8 football playing members.UMass accepts MAC offer to upgrade and play as a football only member in that conference.Big 12 announces name change to the Heartland Conference since they no longer have 12 members.The Big 10 nearly changes its name to the Midwestern Conference, but decides to stick with the worst named divisions in the worst name conference.

2013: The WAC continues to grow with FCS members, with Cal-Davis and Cal-Poly moving up to FBS.Fearing a split of the Big East, the University of Texas convinces Notre Dame to join the Big 12 in all sports except football, where they remain an independent. South Alabama finishes their upgrade to FBS, and becomes a full member of the Sun Belt conference.

2014: Appalachian State and Delaware decide to upgrade to FBS and receive Sun Belt invites.

2016: The Big East football teams split from the basketball teams. They consider inviting additional members to get to 12 schools, but South Florida refuses to let Central Florida in. This causes the remaining 9 members to all decide at the last minute to leave the state of Florida and not let South Florida in to their new conference. Georgetown is invited to upgrade their football program and moves with the football schools instead.

In a stunning move, the new conference convinces Boston College to rejoin and then brings in Temple as a full member to be the 12th program.

2017: The BCS now mandates that a conference must have at least 12 members to receive an automatic qualification for their conference champ, as now 5 of the 6 conferences have that.The Heartland Conference (Formerly the Big 12) turns everyones head by convincing Arkansas to leave the SEC, rejoining past Southwest Conference members, and being able to play the much closer Oklahoma and Missouri teams.The Heartland then considers inviting BYU as a football only member, but after Notre Dame realizes there is no special clause for them in the new BCS, they become full members of the Heartland.The SEC considers inviting A&M, but the Texas Legislature destroys any hopes of the Aggies leaving the other Texas schools. Instead they invite TCU, which had become the best team in the Big East, and has nearly 2 decades of dominant play.South Florida begs to be re-invited to the new Big East to replace TCU, but instead the ACC picks them up and the Big East invites UMass to become the 12 member.The Mountain West then invites UTEP, which had been a solid 6-8 win team over the past 5 years and gets BYU to rejoin as a full member, giving that conference 12 teams as well.

2018: Conference USA considers several Sun Belt and MAC schools to replace UTEP, but after a large donation by Terry Bradshaw, Louisiana Tech is finally able to leave the WAC for a much more geographically fitting C-USAMontana and Montana State decide to upgrade to FBS and will begin play in the WAC in 2020.Georgia State and Georgia Southern also announce plans to upgrade and will begin play in the Sun Belt in 2020.

2020-2030: Several schools upgrade from FCS to FBS, joining the Sun Belt and WAC conferences, and eventually a new Southland Conference forms from the Texas based WAC schools and the Western most Sun Belt Schools.

If anyone would like a google earth file with all the teams in my dream conferences above just pm me and I'll send it to. Lots of fun moving the different schools to new conferences and actually be able to see the geographical layout.

Edit: I'll need your e-mail address as the attach file feature in the pm system will not accept .kmz files.

This is definitely a dream conference scenario but it also incorporates several different ideas I've seen mentioned on this site that I'm rolling into one idea. First, we talk a lot about a Big East split but for the most part everyone seems to assume that the football schools will form an all sport conference and the basketball schools form a non football conference. What I've never seen suggested is the basketball schools forming a new hybrid conference.

Since the basketball schools will never leave, the football schools will have to split off. Notre Dame and Georgetown are likely headed to the Big East along with UCF, Houston and a third school (let's say Memphis). That's a 12/14 conference which is a solid lineup.

Since the football schools split off to form a new conference (we'll call it the Metro Conference), as far as I know the Big East would be in a similar position as the WAC (just with a heck of a lot more spots to fill). The Big East would be exactly what FCS Eastern schools looking to upgrade need. Look no further than UMass's upgrade. They are playing schools in the midwest because there is no regional conference for them to be invited to.

Assuming Nova stays with the basketball schools this doesn't seem to be an impossible task. Right away we can count on Temple and UMass. From there the Big East could grab CAA schools that are likely to upgrade now that there is a more regional conference and room for them. This would likely include James Madison, William & Mary, Delaware, Old Dominion, Charlotte, and even New Hampshire. I wouldn't be shocked if ECU could be lured from C-USA.

With other private non football schools available as well, I don't think it's difficult to imagine the conference recreating something very similar to the current Big East with a 9/16 split.

I left it at 15 because I don't know whether to count Delaware as a private school or public, but this makes an 8/7 split between private and public so the last school in can just be the opposite of what we count Delaware as.

Simple enough, pretty much how everyone envisions it except for Memphis perhaps.

I know quite a few people have mentioned the need for a new FBS East conference which makes perfect sense, every other region has a BCS conference AND a non BCS conference. The new rules in place that are helping the WAC now should be used if a split does occur.

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